The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-27

wi IL Always entluIed 10 seat unless held
by another Ambassador, and it has hap
pened that the Minister of the United States
when occupying seat in this little box has
been compelled to recognize the etiquette of
tne occasion by rising and surrendering his
seat to an Ambassador who had come in.
NOTED POLITICAL LEADERS.
In the House of Commons met Mr.. John
Bright coming out just as was going in.
Mr. Bright who is beginning to show his
age, takes now very little interest in the
proceedings, and rarely spends any time on
the moor, unless there is an important divis-
ION impending. He makes few, if any,
speeches there, as he prefers, when he wishes
TO make public utterance, to do it at a
club dinner. The Irish members now that
the land bill has been disposed of, and
no more questions affecting Ireland are
expected to come before the House for
the remainder of this session, have to a
great extent abandoned the benches where
they have clustered so thickly for so
many months past. Several OF the noted
Nationalist leaders were however, present,
including Sexton, VIM. O'Brien, Dillon and
j. +. y. O'Brien. This last O'Brlen has a
record which is possessed by but one other
man now living. so was told. He was very
active in the Fenian movement of twenty
years since, and upon him and the other
man above alluded to was pronounced that
dreadful sentence of high treason-to be
hung, drawn and quartered." 1t is not
supposed such a sentence will ever be again
pronounced by British court. The last
time such sentence was executed was in
1903 The sentence of O'Brien and his COM
panion was committed to penal servitude
for life. They were afterwards amnestied
O'Brlen is now in Parliament, and his
friend, who went to America, is said to be
holding an office under the municipality of
New York city.
PROPERTY REPRESENTATION.
The city of London sends 60 members to
the House of Commons, or more than twice
as many as the State of Pennsylvania sends
to the House of Representatives Wales
sends 80 members, Scotland ~, and Ireland
lob. England, outside of London, sends
403 members. l had long and agreeable
talk with Mr. Sexton, who sits for a district
in which he does not live, which is so COM
mon. He was telling me of the effects of
the system of property representation in
the election of members of the House of
Commons, and instanced the case of gen
tleman who, having property in eight Par
liamentsry boroughs, had the right, and ex- |
ercised it, to vote for eight different candi- |
dates for the House. Another instance he |
spoke of, which is very remarkable. was of |
5000 electors in the city of London owning
the requisite property in a remote borough |
setting up polling booth in London, voting
for one of the candidates in this borough,
and electing him by their votes. There
seem to be many members of the
House of Commons who hold other
offices. l met at least dozen who were
aldermen in their respective towns There
are about forty officers of the army who are
members
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE.
Last night there were not at any one time
more than sixty members present. At least
half of these sat with their hats on, which is
permissible except when member addresses
the Speaker; then the hat must be removed.
| suppose fully an hour was consumed by
different members of the government in re
plying to questions of which notice had pre-
viously been given by members. Their
answers were all brief but to the point, and
were read from manuscript. noticed that
while they were being read close attention
was paid. The House then proceeded to the
consideration of one of the appropriation or
supply bills, as they are called. 1t was for
the expenses of Parliament and for
various of the departments. The entire
amount asked to pay the expenses of the
House of Lords was, in American currency,
about S2l5, 900, and for the House of Com
mons about $4,000 more. The sum total of
all the employees of the House of Lords of
every character is less than 100, and of
the House of Commons 158 Yet the House
of Lords has nearly six hundred members,
and the House of Commons more than GOO
Some of the higher officials receive what
would be called in the United States large
salaries, while the subordinates are paid
much less than is received by those of the
same grade under Congress
PRETTY BIG BUG.
The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod,
who, | should presume, is the sergeant-at-
arms of the Lords, is a pretty big bug, So
cially and otherwise He is a Knight of the
Garter and a retired admiral He has an
official residence and e., 900 per annum, but
the subordinates under him, who are the
same as the messengers under the Sergeant
alarms of the United States Senate,
and of whom there are only eighteen
altogether, receive only from ESQ to
el70 per annum, or in some instances
not half that paid the Senate mes.
sengers. The chief clerk of the House of
Lords receives &c, 800, and the chief clerk of
the Commons 60, 900 From these down the
sliding scale of compensation for the clerks
falls very rapidly, and the aiority of them
are not paid nearly SO much as is allowed to
the clerks under Congress While | was
looking over these items with several of the
members they inquired about the expenses
of Congress They were amazed and dumb
founded when told that the seventy-six
members of the United States Senate spent
more pubic money on CneT employees IMAM
does the House of Lords, and noble lord who
Just then came along fairly whistled when he
heard that each Senator had private sec
rotary at the public expense Neither house
of Parliament hns pages. There are proba-
bly, half dozen boys who do all the waiting
of this kind required for both houses; and
they are never seen on the floor. The
smoking and refreshment rooms are ex-
clusively for the use of members and those
iyu tod nv nj "a m N OCT in
side the building unless through the good Of
fees of q peer or member. the rooms. which